Island of Pantelleria, Mediterranean, Est North, 80 sq. Km: a pouring of lava, on the continental shelf of Africa, in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. Thirty miles from Tunisia. An agricultural complex containing a number of dammusi,...

Idyll in the Sun: Flavio Albanese's Pantelleria Home

In a hallway, the sofa is by Giuseppe Viganò for Bonacina, and the lamp is from Driade; in the room beyond are an armoire from Borneo, photo portraits by Christian Boltanski, and a vintage sofa from the historic Hotel Des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily.